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Welcome to this “hidden” page.

Consider this just a way for me track my own thoughts. I usually do this in a .txt, but figured I may as well put it on Crymore and share it with the few of you that find this place. There will be no analysis unless you request it of me in the comments.

Titles are listed in order of favorite to least favorite.

Current Show Ratings – v8.2

For v8.2 ratings, the only shows that will appear are those I have seen 10 episodes of. The numbers in parentheses are thus redundant, but I’ll keep them in anyway.

I’m glad to see you’re digging KlK, I’ve watched it like six times already. Here’s to hopinh her suit starts covering more skin as she gets more of those uniforms’ ‘magic’ threads. Also, it’s one of the few shows where it kinda shows sex equality: both genders are stripped almost naked, and I can’t recall any anime in which a man beats a girl to a pulp like that…yay for violence~

You sure you should put Yuushibu way up there? I know the manga is amazing, but they really dropped the ball on that first episode. The comedy felt very forced. A disgrace to the manga and novel if you ask me.

What matters is the burning in your heart when demon-chan smiles. The fire in your blood when the soap suds are about to disappear from her bosom. The flames that course through you when she screws up a social norm despite doing her ganbarre.

Erik-kun, my friend, this is moe. More importantly, it’s moe with ecchi — the perfect combination. None can doubt this show is one of Japan’s finest achievements.

KlK picked up that stupid style in episode 3.
It sucks. I thought they said there wouldn’t be much CG in KlK before it aired but I guess they just went “fuck it” and threw in really out-of-place CG to split the animation load across teams or something.

I was actually enjoying the show before that episode but after being vaguely uninterested nearly the whole way through (even without the CG) I really just don’t care, anymore.

Coppelion is one of the major disappointments of the season. Judging by the poll results, a lot of people were anticipating it. But who can honestly say the show has met their expectations? I don’t think there are many who would.

You should do a translation party/review for the show… Might be the first time I actually use this site to determine which fansub I use. (The rest of the time I just check it in hindsight, in which case I am naturally biased towards the fansub group I’m already watching).

Golden Time is… an interesting show. As of now, I don’t think they needed to pull that ghost/amnesia bullshit, but on the off-chance the show does something interesting with it, I’m still allowing myself to be pulled along.

That being said, with all the ridiculous shit we’re getting in what would normally be a fairly standard romance, there better be a goddamn good pay-off, because I’m gonna feel really let down if there isn’t.

The amnesia part was fine imo. You can tell by the premise that GT isn’t going to break new ground all that much but having this split personality/ghost bollocks business irks me to no end, even disregarding the fact that I’m pretty sure he should’ve died when he fell off the bridge like that.

Now that Samurai Flamenco is ranked where it should be, this list is looking pretty good. Some shows (like Machine-Doll) are ranked a bit high though. The greatest offender on the list is Non Non Biyori at 1/10. It’s one of the best slice-of-life shows since Minami-Ke and Aria. And this is coming from from someone who (mostly) hated Kirino Mosaic, GJ-Bu, Yuyushiki, Going Home Club, and Tamako Market. It’s better than all of those shows combined.

I had dropped UMD (DS9) at Ep 3, but decided to restart it with the next arc—since 5 of your top 6 shows (pre v8.2 rating) had matched my 5 remaining undropped shows. Great minds and all that.

I still dislike the animation, but it’s tolerable since I fixed my calibration. The storyline in this arc is decent, though the scripts—mostly FFF but I flirted with Commie and Hiryyu—are often annoying. However, I’m stuck again at Ep 8. Five minutes in: Loki and Raishin are spurting enough testosterone to arouse two score of harem gorillas. I had to take a breather.

Do things settle down a bit so I can watch the show without perpetual groaning, or should I fear proliferation of silver back hair?

I almost feel guilty for bailing, though. You’ve suffered 10 eps of Log Horizon with 15 to go—just one of 30-odd shows (a plague of anime?) you’re watching! You’re made of sterner stuff than I, Dark_Sage. I salute you!

I have to butt in here. Log Horizon is mediocre-looking, has forgettable characters, a slow pace and an extremely derivative plot setup. However, I have to say, it gets better and better with every single episode. Although I expected literally nothing at first, the way the situation they’re in keeps evolving is really a breath of fresh air. The way the show deals with setting up economy and government in a strange world, along with how the main characters have to make peace with the locals is something I definitely didn’t expect to see in something I thought would just be a SAO knockoff. It lacks SAO’s polished look and exciting action, but has at least ten times the depth. It certainly isn’t one of the best shows this season had to offer, but it’s probably the most surprisingly decent one.

The show contains less evolution than a creationist’s family tree. Fuck, the entire thing is just the author’s poorly written wet dream. “Everyone likes me in the game world because I’m so much smarter than everyone else and now the game world is real and holy shit I’m still smarter than everyone else and everyone respects me for being smarter than them.” The sad part is the premise could actually work, but it’s so bogged down by the author’s incompetency it can’t go anywhere.

“I tricked all the smartest people into giving me 5 million dollars, haha” *glasses push* “now I can take over the entire town with my geniusness and create a government because no one’s smarter than me, haha” *glasses push*

If you really saw that as an excellent manner of dealing with economy/government, you deserve to find the show enjoyable.

“If you really saw that as an excellent manner of dealing with economy/government, you deserve to find the show enjoyable.”

Wow, you don’t have to be such a dick about it. I didn’t say it was excellent, just that it was much more than I was expecting and that I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn’t mindless drivel like it could have been. Sheesh.